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Christopher Marlowe: A Biographical and Critical Study

by Frederick S. Boas

Pages: 338

Contributors: Frederick S. Boas

Publisher: Clarendon Press

Place of Publication: Oxford

Publication Year: 1940

Subjects: Fiction,Marlowe, Christopher,--1564-1593

Table of Contents

Title Page

Preface

Contents

List of Illustrations

Supplementary Note

I: Canterbury

II: Cambridge

III: Classical Translations

IV: Dido, Queen of Carthage

V: The First Part of 'Tamburlaine the Great'

VI: The Second Part of Tamburlaine the Great

VII: Life in London

VIII: Robert Poley Plot and Counterplot: 1585-8

IX: The Tragedy of the Jew of Malta

Appendix to Chapter IX: Thomas Heywood and 'The Jew of Malta'

X: The Massacre at Paris

Appendix to Chapter X

XI: The Troublesome Reign of Edward the Second, King of England

Appendix to Chapter XI

XII: The Tragical History of Doctor Faustus

XIII: Marlowe's Poems

XV: The 'Atheism' of Chomley, Raleigh, and Marlowe

XVI: 30 May 1593 at Deptford Strand

XVII: The Survivors

XVIII: Marlowe through the Centuries

Appendix

Index

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